Philosophy

• Philosophy is critical and analytical thinking
• Philosophy looking at the holistic perspective of something
• The use of the term "philosophy" is attributed to Pythagoras as he said to be the first to use it when he differentiated the three classes of people who attend the ancient Olympic Games
• Three Classes of people who attend the ancient Olympic Games; Lovers of Gain, Lovers of Honor, and Lovers of Knowledge and Wisdom
• The word philosophy is derived from "philosophia" which is the combination of the Greek terms "philos" (love) and "sophia" (wisdom)
• Philosophy means "love of wisdom"
• In the three concepts of philosophy, Armando Bonifacio explained that characterizing philosophy can begin with the common conceptions about it
• Philosophy could also be a reconstructed belief or a value system
• Philosophy covers a wide range of subjects
• Branches of Philosophy; Ethics, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Logic, Metaphysics
• Ethics derived from the Greek term "ethos" meaning moral philosophy, is concerned about human conduct
• Ethics deals with norms or standards of right and wrong applicable to human behavior
• A philosopher engaged in ethics is concerned in finding out what norms or standards of human behavior lead to ends or goals which are desirable or undesirable
• Aesthetics comes from the greek word "aisthetikos" which means sensitive or perceptive
• Epistemology comes from the Greek word "episteme" which means knowledge
• This branch of philosophy deals with various problems concerning knowledge
• Origin of knowledge; empiricism (given by experience) or rationalism (given by the mind prior to experience)
• "God live as a man" - Epistemology
• Logic is a branch of philosophy that looks into whether there are rules or principles that govern reasoning
• Logic incorporates the analysis of the methods of deduction and induction to provide the rules on how people ought to think logically
• Metaphysics literally means "after physics"
• Early Greek philosophers claimed that 'Metaphysics' is the study of the nature of reality
• This branch of philosophy analyzes whether everything is material, and if life, energy, and mind are its different manifestations
• Metaphysicians reflect on the subject of appearances (how something looks by how it appears) and reality (that which actually is)
• Metaphysics - What is the meaning of life?
• Metaphysics - What is the purpose of life?
• Metaphysics - Does God exist?